Sana Saeed
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media critic. I make 'backspace', a media critique series at @ajplus . meccavellian. views my own, so don’t plagiarize. currently uncouth.
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These girls survived ten days of Israeli bombings during the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. The home next to theirs, housing six women, was bombed.
They were both 2 and 6 years old.
Celebs, journalists, tabloid rags, countless hateful groups & ppl want to ruin their lives.
Father of sisters who tore down Israeli hostage posters insists they are ‘good girls’
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What is it called when you're an unwanted military presence in another sovereign country?
The US has rejected Iraq's request to discuss the withdrawal of US troops
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Just a reminder that
@Rihanna
, who is not a billionaire, has given more to support healthcare workers right now than almost every billionaire in this country.
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the onion makes me want to quit journalism because no one can compete
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Incredible to be showing a young Palestinian child wailing, screaming “we didn’t do anything wrong” only to the chyron under him read ‘Hamas-run health ministry’.
"We didn't do anything wrong. We didn't do anything wrong"
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They are going to slaughter Palestinians in the dark, without allowing anyone else in the world to witness it. My god.
Our correspondent in his last report as Israel imposed total blackout. "Please guys if you can hear us send the message to the world we are isolated now in Gaza. Again guys if you can hear us ... we are isolated we don't have phone signals or tech connections.."
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From this to prominent Russian figures resigning from gov't positions, it's remarkable. Makes me think about the US commentators who made snarky remarks asking 'where are the anti-war Russians?' Imagine if anything like this had happened in the US during Iraq or Afghanistan.
Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev writes "No war please" on the camera following his advancement to the final in Dubai.
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They’re going to bomb a hospital.
BREAKING: Israel's military has given the Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza two hours to evacuate
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Well damn, didn’t expect this from Belgium.
The deputy Prime Minister of
#Belgium
is saying it is time for sanctions against
#Israel
.
#moreofthis
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He went with HIS father😭
Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸
“I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”
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Bravest politician in this country, in this moment, to go up against the US government in the way that she has, unwavering in her message and principles.
"The cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me. What I don't understand is why the cries of Palestinians sound different to you all." -
@RepRashida
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I love how she framed this question because that left turn took the smile right off Haley’s face.
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over the course of a week, piers morgan has had on his show: mohammad hijab, bassem yousef, husam zomlot and now hasan piker.
what's his booker cookin' over there
Hasan COOKED Piers Morgan right here
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Seeing Palestinian healthcare workers - who have put their lives on the line, who have seen unspeakable things done to the human body, who have lost their own families and colleagues - dehumanized & made into “terrorists” has been especially devastating in all of this.
Palestinian doctors in Gaza in a message to Israeli doctors:
“We as doctors are ambassadors of peace. We save lives. Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession & bear responsibility”
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The Palestinian blood on the hands of American journalism will never wash away.
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An incoming Harvard freshman, a 17 year old Palestinian boy, had his visa cancelled & was deported because US officials searched his phone/laptop & said his friends had social media posts that were critical of the US.
Yup.
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“Chaotic incident”?
The word you’re looking for here, CNN, is massacre.
At least 100 killed and 700 injured in chaotic incident where IDF opened fire as people waited for food in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
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He just lost 6 members of his family in Gaza to Israeli bombs and the second question she asks him is if he condemns Hamas. This is moral depravity and racism disguised as ‘journalism’.
"My cousin is not Hamas. These kids are not Hamas."
Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, lost 6 family members amongst the almost 700 killed in Israeli strikes into Gaza.
#Newsnight
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I’m really glad we got to hear what one of the greatest mass killers of our lifetime had to say about guilt.
Bush on the Israel-Hamas war: “Negotiating with killers is not the option for the elected government of Israel. … My view is one side is guilty. And it’s not Israel.”
WATCH our exclusive video:
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Israel has wiped out all generations of 45 Palestinian families.
Never in my life did I think I’d read a headline like this.
All generations, of 45 families.
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Oh that is not an exaggeration, he went into full threat mode.
Israel's top spokesperson threatening the anchor is some next level psychotic behaviour.
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This is an amazing illustration, using a Snapchat feature, of how much of a lie it is to call this a “war” or “conflict”.
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“All of them”
But those asking for a ceasefire are the ones being “genocidal”?
In tears, Florida State Rep
@AngieNixon
begs for a ceasefire and asks how many dead Palestinians will be enough.
Republican
@michellesalzman
(
@FLHouseRep
) shouts out, "All of them."
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Who killed your reporter?
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this is a US member of Congress wearing the military uniform of a foreign military, absolutely insane.
Rep. Brian Mast is wearing his IDF uniform for the GOP conference meeting today.
“Tlaib has her flag, I got my uniform.”
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say it with me - every…
An Israeli sniper takes position inside a UN school in Gaza, shooting at targets and using the school as a base.
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everyday there’s been one thing, from the non-stop barbarity, that absolutely breaks me.
today, it was this.
Dr. Ghada Abu Eida, a doctor at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, was working in the ER department when rescue crews carried in her daughter on a stretcher. Dr. Ghada was saving people injured in the Israeli air strikes on Jabalia Camp, unaware that her daughter was also targeted.
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Beyond unconscionable. Reporting on the hundreds of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on a hospital,
@andersoncooper
in real time goes from “appears to be a huge of civilian life…uhhh huge loss of life”.
Mask off dehumanization.
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Super weird coincidence that Israel bombs a Belgian building in Gaza right after Belgium refused to cut funding for UNRWA.
The office building of
@Enabel
, the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation, in
#Gaza
has been bombed and is completely destroyed.
Attacking civilian buildings is and remains totally unacceptable.
Together with
@hadjalahbib
, I will summon the Israeli ambassador.
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No, Israel doesn’t target hospitals - wait sorry, Hamas is under the hospitals and in the ambulances
No, Israel doesn’t target journalists - wait but Palestinian journalists are Hamas
No, Israel doesn’t target UN workers - sorry, they’re Hamas too
"Many
@UNRWA
workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts"
The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN, UN agencies, UN workers and UN officials
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If you wanna know exactly why Israeli officials & supporters of Israel have been talking a lot about TikTok — this is why.
The platform is filled with people who are able to get to the bone of it easily and powerfully.
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‘every accusation is a confession’
Calling for a ceasefire now is asking Israel to agree to a truce with rapists.
Read this
@AOC
@MarkPocan
@Ilhan
@SummerForPA
@JamaalBowmanNY
@CoriBush
@RashidaTlaib
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Another Palestinian journalist - another thread that connects us to Gaza - has been killed. We’ve lost just too, too many.
Innalilahi wa Innalilahi raji’un.
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This is Palestinian American professor Samer Alatout. He had just asked the police to leave the students alone. He later said he saw & heard the cops point at him and say “we want him”.
Professor pinned on the ground being arrested at
@UWMadison
, asking police to leave students alone
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He accuses Western media of being complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. They ask him how and then proceed to prove his point.
I didn't “lose” 21 family members.
Israel KILLED 21 members of my family, including my father, two brothers, 3 sisters, and 14 of my nieces and nephews.
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Amanpour says there ‘are no journalists on the ground in Gaza’. Stewart corrects her, saying there are: Palestinians & they’re being killed.
She responds ‘yes, but we need independent,western journalists’
She switches gears swiftly but her initial lament gives away the…
"Our major problem covering Israel-Gaza right now... is that we can't get there."
@amanpour
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Another journalist & her entire family killed.
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These aren’t “evacuations” the way they’ve been framed— this is forcible displacement, it’s ethnic cleansing. We remember the images from the Nakba & we see those images playing out today.
People evacuating the city to the south of the strip. It’s really a new Nakba.
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On the evacuation pamphlets Israel dropped on Palestinians is a QR code that leads you to this map: these are all the areas that need to be "evacuated" because they're going to be bombed.
Tell us again, with your mighty liberal chests, how this isn't a genocide.
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232 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank. 12 Israelis.
Specificity in language and numbers matters.
A week of fighting between Israel and Hamas has left more than 200 people dead. Maps show the extent of the devastation.
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“That single horrible incident in Illinois” was the brutal murder of 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim Wadea Al Fayoume, who was stabbed 26 times because his mother’s landlord was listening to fearmongering ghouls similar to you, Megyn.
I’m sorry but Islamophobia and that single horrible incident in Illinois does not belong in this debate given what’s happening to Jews. The problem right now is not Islamophobia
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Not only did Germany commit the first genocide of the 20th century in Namibia — but the savagery they executed on the Herero & Nama (ie starvation, concentration camps, torture) were the basis of the cruelties later used in the Holocaust.
An incredible statement from Namibia.
Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza
On Namibian soil,
#Germany
committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most…
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are you serious
BREAKING: Israeli President Isaac Herzog claims Hamas terrorists who broke into Israel were carrying instructions on how to make chemical weapons.
Read more:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Biden admin was concerned a pause in Israeli bombardment would open Gaza up to more journalists to cover Israeli crimes & “turn public opinion”.
Read that again. They strategized how to subvert coverage using Palestinian lives. Then consider how Israel has killed 49 journalists.
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Me, a South Asian, watching the collapse of the British government
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Israel assured that they will give a report back in 45 days if they violated international law despite the IDF reporting back proudly documenting war crimes for everybody to see including on Telegram channels
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I cannot recall a more embarassing, shameful & grotesque moment in US news media history than this one.
You have try very hard to come with a headline like this.
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Compare her - heralded as the leader of the progressive wing of the Democrats, the byproduct of Sanders’ political ‘revolution’ - to Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib & Summee Lee in keffiyehs and holding ‘ceasefire now’ signs while withholding applause for Biden.
AOC really became the same ineffective, party loyalist, establishment democrat she criticized to get elected
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Killed by who?
All of these have been updated within the last hour, following eyewitness testimony from journalists who were with Shireen Abu Akleh who all say Israeli forces shot her in the head. This is reprehensible journalism.
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“Maybe you’re not used to women talking!”
What an absolutely disgusting, racist display of whatever “journalism” this is supposed to be. Her explicit contempt for Arab/Muslim men is indicative of how many/most journalists like her - esp white women - engage with Palestinians.
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Very cool that Malala is working alongside the former Secretary of State who supported the CIA drone wars that killed & maimed countless in Northern Pakistan, destroying access to education; a former SoS who is actively supporting the genocide in Gaza right now.
Malala herself…
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Has anyone seen this level of emotion & solidarity among Americans for any other country that’s been invaded / faced war (and not by the US, because of course that doesn’t exist)? In the last forty years?
SNL devotes cold open to the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York
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This is the brother who donated his prison labor wages, at 13 cents an hour, to Gaza.
You can read his story here.
Our brother Hamza is home after 38 years in prison. Alhamdullilah 🤲🏼
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He’s a Democrat running for Congress.
I’ve never seen such rampant anti-Muslim/Palestinian racism in this country - every single day there are multiple incidents of threatened violence, firings and/or assaults.
he went on private after throwing these girls off the sand cliff by the highway.
does he think he can't be reported? even on priv?! lol
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I stopped breathing when he opened her eyes. He calls her his soul.
Muslim, Arab, Palestinian men - for decades - have been made into threats: to the West, their own societies, to women, their own families. But these are the men we know, the men we love & the men we cry for.
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Ahh the apologies are coming out. It doesn't matter, the lies have been spread.
BBC & others have peddled in insidious, purposely anti-Palestinian and unsubstantiated information that is having a direct & fatal impact specifically on Gazans, whose slaughter is being justified.
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Israel wants to ensure that there are no journalists left in Gaza.
Al Jazeera shocked and outraged by the Israeli threat towards Al Jazeera English journalist Youmna Elsayed and her family in the Gaza Strip.
@YoumnaElSayed17
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“member of population” vs “citizen” 👏🏼👏🏼
JAPAN: Health Ministry decides that every member of the population will receive a coronavirus vaccine for free
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His eyes..
"They said: say your last words, we will execute you. We will shoot you. They pulled the triggers, and then an officer came and said: no, we will interrogate them."
An elderly man narrates how Israeli soldiers tortured him along with other elderlies after kidnapping them from…
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if you don’t want refugees, stop making them.
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In every protest I’ve seen, whenever Muslims are praying, people - of all backgrounds, beliefs - have shown up to protect us. I’d be lying if I said this image didn’t choke me up.
During Jummah (Friday prayer) this afternoon, Columbia University students formed a human shield with blankets to provide privacy to those students participating in prayer after a video showing students praying on the lawn began circulating on social media
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“They are all doing fine together in a mass grave, while I am alone above the ground”
My god. 💔
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Absolutely gutted.
Four members of a Muslim family, in Ontario, were killed last night when a 20 year old man drove his car into them. They were targeted because of their faith, according to police.
They're survived by one 9-year-old child.
Innalilahi wa innalilahi raji'un.
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Refaat’s last tweet. May we never forget or forgive this administration & party for what they did to the Palestinians.
The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.
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‘If she rather be arrested for fighting for Palestine, I’d be the happiest daddy’
In the midst of the horrors of Gaza’s mass graves, wailing Palestinian mothers & this country’s genocidal zeal, what a blessing to hear this father roar for his daughter & roar for Palestinians.
Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸
“I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”
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This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen. An Israeli death squad disguised as civilians executing Palestinians in a hospital.
Somehow Israel finds a new way, everyday, to be more unabashed in its killing of Palestinians.
Insane documentation of the Israeli death-squad disguised as Palestinian civilians and medical workers, which murdered three Palestinians inside Ibn Sina hospital this morning in Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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For months we have seen instance after instance of the softness of Palestinian men. It breaks my heart how they’ve been rendered so criminal and barbaric - picked up, tortured and executed by Israelis with no one advocating for them. They have shown us a Prophetic masculinity.
Gaza children are afraid to cross what the military claims is a “safe passage” due to frequent instances of sniping and fatalities during crossings.
Colleagues from PRCS reassure them, emphasizing that it’s for their safety !
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who knew a genocide campaign would lead to *checks notes* more calls for genocide
Israelis chanting “Death to Arabs” in Netanya and trying to break down gate to attack Palestinian students.
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This is at UCLA, where pro-genocide protestors are shooting explosives at sleeping students in the Gaza solidarity encampment.
There has been no coverage of the *documented* violence, racism and harassment by Zionists against students across SoCal campuses.
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Shireen Abu Akleh isn’t just an Al Jazeera journalist, she’s also a Palestinian, born in Jerusalem. She was killed by the very forces that occupy and have stolen the homeland she dedicated her life to reporting on. May she rest in peace & may we uplift her legacy.
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@bethanyshondark
Are you saying that the required context here is that the Israelis would, understandably, shoot Palestinian women in hijab?
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AOC is excelling at the art of a forked tongue politic. Today, she “uplifted” student protestors during a speech and then took this pic with the guy they’re protesting, the guy sponsoring the genocide they’re protesting — the guy she’s campaigning for. No notes.
Young Americans know that the climate crisis is the existential threat of our time.
They deserve leaders who believe them.
We’re not going to let them down.
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Sky News deleted this exchange from their feed but..
Striking moment where this Sky news presenter attempts to just ask Bennett about Palestinian civilians. Bennett - who once bragged about "killing Arabs" - loses it and resorts to the language of genocide justification.
"What about those Palestinians who are in hospital on life support & babies in incubators that will have to be turned off because Israelis have cut the power to Gaza?"
Ex Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: ""Are you seriously asking me about Palestinian civilians? Whats wrong wth you?"
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“May your loved ones remain” is a prayer I’ve never heard. It seared my heart.
▶️ if you watch one thing from
#Gaza
let it be the words of this dignified old lady
“The woman who insisted on staying home during the relentless and brutal Zionist bombing, to end up in a better place hours later”
#Gaza_under_attack
#فلسطين #غزه_تباد
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Memorial to the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel, outside the White House Correspondents Dinner which is filled with the those who sponsor this slaughter and those who provide the propaganda for it.
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After seeing the shredded body of a child hanging from a wall, I genuinely am at a loss.
I’ve said again and again that Israel is a society of murderous sociopathy. But in that I missed saying what’s equally true: so too is the United States.
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This is on every single person in this country who has demanded & celebrated the dehumanization of Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians. There have been a series of anti-Muslim/Arab attacks all week which have culminated in this. But go off about “hate on both sides”.
We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family's apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume.
@cairchicago
will hold a…
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Liberal American Zionists: the problem is Netanyahu
Israeli press: all of our people come together to starve the Palestinians♥️
“They’re from all different sides of the Israeli political spectrum… they say they are from the right, from the left, they’re religious, they’re secular, some of them are families of hostages… but all coming out for the simple aim of trying to stop humanitarian aid”
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This is so very painful & enraging to watch. Our constitutional rights are being spat on in service of a genocide.
Four women at ASU had their hijabs removed by police following arrest. Here we see them remove it (all blurred) and then just put a hoodie on her head*.
Just obtained video showing police remove a woman’s hijab at ASU.
Legal sources tell
@ABC15
that four women had this happen. It’s another constitutional issue from this weekend's protests.
*This is a screenshot. Video posted in next tweet*
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Palestinians are displaced into refugee camps by Israel — and then incinerated.
Collectively we’ve gone beyond complacency & complicity to this genocide: just full on normalization. You won’t find much coverage of this in US news, which is still pushing Israeli narratives.
⭕ LIVE: Dozens of Palestinians feared killed after an Israeli air strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza ⤵️
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France banned Palestinian solidarity protests, but people still showed up. That’s how it’s done.
🇫🇷🇵🇸 FLASH - Plusieurs milliers de personnes se sont réunies en soutien aux Palestiniens sur la Place de la République à
#Paris
, malgré l’interdiction de la manifestation. (via
@LucAuffret
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It is a psychosis to have the expectation that we are to believe and accept that Palestinians should not be resisting against this; that they are ‘wrong’ to resist against the state that does this.
A Palestinian journalist captured the moment of an Israeli drone attack targeting an ambulance carrying wounded residents in Gaza today.
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Children are starving to death in Gaza and this ghoul is eating ice cream while casually talking about ‘hoping’ for a ceasefire. How flippant and nasty.
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All this “from the River to the sea is genocidal” discourse is incredible when we actually have a real instance of one ethnic group being kept imprisoned in one location while having their entire bloodlines wiped out in a campaign of bombing & starvation by another ethnic group.
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rough day for the pro-Israel crowd out here—openly admitting that the Israeli military does, in fact, target civilians.
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reminder that the editor in chief of The Atlantic - Jeffrey Goldberg - is former Israeli prison guard
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Sanders is near the end of his life, he’s 82. He’s not running for anything. Him not demanding a ceasefire isn’t a position or strategy born out of political calculus - it is what he believes. How utterly shameful.
Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. I’m calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of all…
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